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Flickrization and daytime ethics
My third and last entry on this.
1. Now flickr officially announced that they have been bought by yahoo.
2. I heard this some days ago from a very trustworthy source and posted it here.
3. After that I apologized for my posting - because I realized that spreading unconfirmed rumours does collide with my daytime ethics as a journalist. (Thank you.)
4. I didn't apologize because I thought the information was wrong.
5. I (hopefully) learned a lot about blogging in the last weeks. I'll write a lengthy essay on the difference between blogs and journalism
6. I am very happy to hear that flickr will stay on it's way to conquer the world. :-)
20.03.2005, 22:27
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-1- schreibt Moe am 20.03.2005, 22:51
anyway, it's very compelling to compensate for print medium sluggishness by using fast weblog technology.
-2- schreibt gHack am 20.03.2005, 22:57
But it's not that compelling to compensate missing research by frivolity. (It's absolutely ok for some blogs. It's not ok if you earn your money by working for msm. You can't adjust your working ethics depending on the medium.)
-3- schreibt Jochen am 20.03.2005, 23:09
Yes. That's what I mentioned in a recent discussion on a similar subject: In weblogs, there's no editorial staff and little control. You only have to push the button. Journalism is a collective process. Weblogging often is the result of a single person's endeavour. Which means that exactly those aspects which make weblogging so enticing for a journalist are at the same time obstacles when it comes to professionalism.
-4- schreibt gHack am 20.03.2005, 23:21
I don't think that you have to work in a collective to follow journalistic rules. ;-)
You are right. Weblogs are fun because/when they are non-journalistic. This is the reason why weblogs of staff writers are almost always/have to be boring by definition. (Like this here.)
-5- schreibt Jochen am 20.03.2005, 23:30
Of course you can work alone and stick to the rules. But when it comes to hardcore journalistic work, I really appreciate the feedback of seasoned colleagues. Not to speak of proofreaders, editors and other filters. I just don't buy into the more stupid aspects of blogger ideology according to which the voice of a single person is much more authentic than the work of a editorial staff - which is often enough denounced as "streamlined", amongst other, more unpleasant things. But let's discuss this at another place. I think your publishing of the Flickr deal was an interesting case, but you shouldn't chastise yourself so much for having published the info.
-6- schreibt gHack am 20.03.2005, 23:50
I just don't buy into the more stupid aspects of blogger ideology according to which the voice of a single person is much more authentic than the work of a editorial staff
Well, I buy exactly that and I think that this is one of the reasons blogs are successful. If they just copied journalism we wouldn't consume them.
Over and out.
-7- schreibt Jochen am 20.03.2005, 23:58
Point 4 is highly interesting. I'm looking forward to your essay.